From https://leadershipmatters1213.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/top-ten-skills-for-museum-leaders/ |
The Museum
Leadership Program (MLP) is running in 2018. Presented in association with the
Gordon Darling Foundation, MLP is an intensive, residential program for
high-level museum and gallery professionals. An outstanding international
faculty provides participants with the multiple tools now required in
leadership roles.
It is testament to
the program that Sir Nicholas Serota CH, has accepted
to be a key faculty member for the 2018 Museum Leadership Program. Sir Serota was director
of The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and the Whitechapel Gallery, London, before becoming in 1988 director of the Tate,
the United Kingdom's national gallery of modern and British art. He has been
Chair of Arts Council England since February 2017. He has been the chairman of
the Turner Prize jury.
For more information click here and meanwhile clock these diary dates.
When: 21 - 26 October 2018
Where: Sydney
Course fee: $3,960
Arts Tasmania has supported a bursary to cover the course fee for one Tasmanian
to attend the Museum Leadership Program. Applicants should apply directly
to the Museum Leadership Program, noting their intention to apply for the
bursary. Make an expression
of interest now to museumleadership@bigpond.com to be advised when formal
applications are required.
Testimonial from a local
Andy Baird
(then Acting Deputy Director, Audience Engagement, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,
Hobart) - MLP
2015
Across a week of
intense thinking, learning and immersion, the Museum Leadership Program
provided a multitude of insights large and small. I dug the well and definitely
struck water and, as hoped, reignited the passion for museums as the place to
be.
Key insights? The
idea of creating a powerful ‘foundation myth’ for a museum as espoused in the
session with Neil MacGregor had particular resonance; it opened up
understanding of how a poetic, visual, and intellectually robust yet simple
narrative can guide an institution in such diverse ways as defending
beneficiaries (the public) against threats, aiding partnership development,
fostering community engagement, embracing the online world and brokering
discussion around object ownership.
Conversely from the
same day’s session: the empowerment that arose from a realisation that we in
Australia and New Zealand have a significant divergence from British
imperialism in our understanding and respect for First Nations’ intellectual
and property ownership and where knowledge resides – apologies to Neil if I’m
misrepresenting.
I learnt, with no
great surprise, that I’m on ‘L’ plates with social media engagement, but now I
can see how to turn the ignition key and the opportunities are so bloody
evident! ‘Elegant design’ as a feature of good strategy (and solutions in
general) was another brilliant framing of perspective and a criteria-tool for
seeking solutions. And the creed about focusing on the important rather than
the urgent – I wish.
Of course, the
chance to talk shop with diverse fellows, now a network of colleagues across
Australasia who share so many similar challenges, will be an invaluable help in
the digging that will come with an ongoing career in learning and museum
leadership. Yep, the MLP program was – is – a fantastic opportunity and highly
recommended: Dig in!